[ale] crontab question

[Armsby John-G16665]

I am 
trying it as we write.  Thanks!
 

  <FONT face=Tahoma 
  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Da Splinter 
  [mailto:da_real_splinter at yahoo.com]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 
  3:34 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: Re: [ale] crontab 
  question
  Whatever the frequency you wanted to run this script, you were missing a 
  field. 
  Â Da Splinter <da_real_splinter at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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    If this script is to run every odd hour then you are missing a * at the 
    beginning:minute hour day month week /home/script* 
    1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21 * * * /home/dc/bin/getFiles.scr
    Â Armsby John-G16665 <John.Armsby at motorola.com> 
    wrote: 
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    style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I 
      am on redhat 8.0. I want to run a script every other hour. Since this was 
      a new install, I simply copied the format of an HPUX cron.The cron 
      does not run. Is my syntax bad??4th Berkeley Distribution 29 
      December 1993 CRONTAB(1)[dc at xena dc]$ crontab -l# DO NOT EDIT THIS 
      FILE - edit the master and reinstall.# (/tmp/crontab.5548 installed on 
      Thu Dec 26 11:40:49 2002)# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 
      1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21 * * * 
      /home/dc/bin/getFiles.scrThanks,John_______________________________________________Ale 
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